I live in Waitakere City, just out of Auckland, New Zealand. The view from my window is of thousands of acres of native bush. This is my perfect work environment. In the early 1980's I was the charge nurse of the oncology unit at Auckland Hospital It was there that I came to understand that health and illness were a mindbodyspirit affair. That purely physical approaches greatly limited a person's ability to recover and to thrive. Ever since I have been searching for ways to integrate the mind and spirit into supporting health and healing. I trained widely in counselling and pyschotherapy and delved far and wide into mindbody programmes. I met Rita and Steph, my Creating Health colleagues, and co-authors of the Having Sugery? Aliveguide 10 years ago. We have been in a dynamic partnership ever since, developing integrated mindbodyspirit group programmes. I also have a busy private practice here in my home. What a contrast from the days in uniform, in a huge and frantic hospital. I feel greatly blessed.